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I am a Project Delivery professional passionate about delivering business outcomes with diciplined Agile or Waterfall methodologies. The bulk of my career has been spent in FMCG, Retail and Manufacturing environments with some time in Financial Services. My career has included both business and technology focused roles. I have extensive experience with Marketing, Sales, Supply chain and Manufacturing technologies, coupled with Program Management, Project Management, Lean Six Sigma process improvement and general business management experience. My strong interpersonal skills allow me to build high performing teams, and effectively manage stakeholders at various levels of the business with focus building trust and rapport. Due to my diverse background, I have accumulated a broad range of skills and experience which I feel provides me with a uniquely objective view and pragmatic approach to my work. I strive to provide business value and gain satisfaction from this and working with great people. I am currently seeking a challenge that will allow me to leverage not only my project delivery skills but also business acumen, stakeholder management and leadership skills to drive outcomes for customers, stakeholders and business overall. Specialities: Project Delivery; Program Management; Project Management; Technical Project Management; Outsourced Vendor Management; Stakeholder Management; Project Portfolio Management; Project Mobilisation, Design Build, Test and Deployment; Agile and Waterfall delivery; Scaled Agaile Framework (Certified SAFe 5 Practitioner); Stand-ups, Sprint Planning and Retrospectives; PMP; Project Management practice development; Team Leadership and management; Budget Management; Risk Management; Resource Management; Stakeholder Engagement and Management; Vendor Management; On-premise and SaaS application delivery; SAP Hana S4, SAP Marketing Cloud, MS Dynamics, AWS; Atlassian Jira and Confluence; MS Project; Web stack technologies; Supply Chain Techniques and Technologies; Six Sigma & Lean; Manufacturing Systems and Processes; Retail Systems and Processes; Business Analysis; Statistical Analysis; Environmental, Health & Safety; and Quality Assurance.

Listed skills include Business Process Improvement, Business Analysis, Business Process, Project Management, and 35 others.